Issue 17, Page 13
This must be that “Raw Water” I keep seeing in the organic aisle.
Transcript
1: More crates litter this room, but it is more overgrown with moss, grass, and vines. Much of the ceiling has collapsed, and this has allowed rain to collect into a shallow pool of moss on the ground.
Julia: Shit. I think that’s water!
<digital click>
2: She makes her way close to the pool, quickly but carefully stepping over beams of metal.
Julia: <Comm speakers click> Lily, does it look safe?
Lily: [untranslated robotic alien speech – uncertain.]
3: Julia runs her gloved hand through it. It’s not clear water – there’s a blue-green film across the top of it which sticks to her fingers, and her disturbance has set tiny flying insects into motion.
4: We see her hand tap at her wrist computer, which analyzes the water with a green beam of light.
5: We see the results:
43% Water
20% ???
13% Copper
9% Iron
5% ???
1% ???
Biological traces found
6: Julia’s teeth grit in anger.
Julia: Dammit…
7: Having sat on the ground, she kicks out at a nearby metal crate that thunks hollowly.
Julia: Dammit, dammit dammit!
Time to learn how to purify water then. A several containers, a steam catcher and a good ol’ source of heat, preferably fire.
Time to ask Lily where the Laboratories are. They should have all the glassware beakers and condensers and a source of heat…
Am I the only one thinking of D&D “Jellies” and such? Anyway that’s a very high mineral/metal content for it to be so clear not to mention all the other stuff. Also, not a good idea to be touching unknown liquids which is one of those pet peeves of mine when I see it being done in movies and such. You DON’T know what that stuff is or where it’s been! I learned that lesson when I was a little kid and watched “The Blob”. If you have to, poke it with a stick and if you absolutely must, take a careful sample with a glass container and “DON’T TOUCH”
Whatever Lily’s response is, it has a repeated letter! So it can’t be “maybe”